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Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Inflection—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Children—Death—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Consolation (Islam)—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Ibn Mālik, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh -1274—Iʻjāz al-taʻrīf fī ʻilm al-taṣrīf [Browse]

Contains

Suyūṭī, 1445-1505. Risālah fī faḍl mawt al-aṭfāl. [Browse]

Summary note

Commentary on a treatise on grammar by Ibn Mālik (d. 672/1274). The text is followed on fol. 77a-78b by a short treatise by Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī on the death of young children, apparently written by a later hand.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 3a).
• 17 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink with use of red. Fol. 77a-78b written in medium large casual naskh. Light cream paper with pulp and a few lines visible. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Quinions. Title written on the lower edge of the text block. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (counts fly-leaves with inscriptions).
• Copy completed on 12 Shawwāl 878 (colophon, fol. 76b).
• Incipit text 1 (fol. 3b): احمد الله تعالي علي متواتر نعمآيه حمدا يملا طباق ارضه وسمآئه ... وبعد فان جماعة من المشتغلين ... قال الاسم المجرد عن الزوايد ... وعنق قلت بدأ بتبيين وزن الاسم
• Explicit text 1 (fol. 76b): لان المتلين في كلمة واحدة فاعرفه
• Incipit text 2 (fol. 77b): سبحان الحي الذى لا يموت
• Explicit text 2 (fol. 78b): فهذه حال الشهدا لا يموتون بل هم احيا فى قبورهم انتهى

Binding note

Brown leather over pasteboards for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Light green paper pasted on the covers, with an outer frame made of a blind-tooled and gold painted running pattern and gold painted single line.

Provenance

Two ownership statements on fol. 3a: one signed Muḥammad Amīn ʻĀṭif, with seal ; the other signed Muḥammad Shākir and dated Rajab 1196 [1782]. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 3580
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 526/VI. cmt.

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

Other title(s)

شرح اعجاز التعريف في علم التصريف

Title in Mach, R. Yahuda

• Sharḥ Iʻjāz al-taʻrīf fī ʻilm al-taṣrīf

OCLC

76881610

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